The sun was starving and attempting to fry every mobile individual on earth when I walked through the most anticipated day of my life. My vision of greatness was somewhat adjusted as I couldn’t help but admire the beauty of structures that watched me,
providing me the shade I needed to get away from the hot summer day. It was on this day when I realised people on magazine covers had beauty but campus girls had both beauty and life. It was my first day on campus.
A boy who grew up a goat-watcher and could tell time by the length of his shadow was finally out of his comfort zone. I walked with great anticipation the future brightens my day while I walked slowly towards it. “One two three, one two three”, I counted my footsteps up to three while staring at the shoes I wore for my matric-dance. Being a curious kid, I couldn’t help but wonder, “Are these people staring at my good looks, or do I seem out of place?
”Well, that’s the question I still wish I would answer. All the way from a small village outside Polokwane into a new world – it was my university orientation day. Only this time my view of the world was in UHD, and my feet gently carried my body with great confidence.
My shoes indulged on the green that couldn’t help but massage my feet and lead me into the eyes of a beauty queen, the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. Unlike the scented-petroleum-jelly girls I left back at home, this girl’s scent was bragging and dragging me towards her – One would bet I’d see heaven if I was to close my eyes and just pay attention to this queen’s sweet scent
Her eyes so warm a lamb’s creator is finally found. Teeth so white, the snow had a lifelong product. My definition of beauty changed again, Shakira’s track entitled Hips Don’t Lie couldn’t help but occupy my head.
An earthquake almost hit Cape Town when my feet trembled, they just couldn’t hold my body as confident as they did. Interview lessons taken; I took a deep breath and walked towards her with my mom’s lesson in mind. My mom always taught me to embrace life and this girl seemed to be life and a half, so I applied her teachings; “Kgarebjana, mahlo a gago a nkgopela gore ke go dumediše, gape o segametse! (Young lady, your eyes keep dragging me towards you… you’re very beautiful!)”
